Example sentences of "'ve been on " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years . |
2 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
3 | I 've been on the mooch trying to see what I could find , ’ Bryce explained . |
4 | ‘ Well , I 've been on the road for three days . ’ |
5 | As the shop door closed behind her , Miss Belle , speaking breathlessly as if she had been running , said , ‘ We 've been on the look-out for you . |
6 | P. H. I 've been on the street when helmets have gone flying . |
7 | I 've been on the railways all my life , eh ? ’ |
8 | ‘ I 've been on telly just about non-stop for 12 months , but I 've got a few ideas I have n't had time to work on . ’ |
9 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
10 | I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything ! |
11 | You know , it probably sounds weird , but after you 've been on the road all that time , you kind of forget whether you 're any good or not . |
12 | ‘ I 've been on thyroid tablets since 1939 , but they do n't affect me ’ |
13 | ‘ We have a very large number of people who 've been on our books for between a year and 18 months and they are quality staff , people who would have been snapped up within 10 days , three years ago . ’ |
14 | As you know , I 've been on the look out for some years for a smaller company we could have a friendly merger with , but there 's nothing even remotely promising at the moment . |
15 | We 've been on the set since about 8 o'clock and at about ten-thirty nobody 's shot anything . |
16 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
17 | We 've been on the booze for five days and the boys only settled the hotel bar bill at six o'clock on Thursday morning . |
18 | You 'd likely have been sorry if you had n't , 'cos you 've been on the verge of snapping . |
19 | ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family . |
20 | I 've been on this big rant lately of how transition is natural , continental drift , the seasons , the weather 's different every day , people grow older and change … |
21 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
22 | Unless they 've been on a course of laughing pills , no one at the doctor 's will find these jokes in the least funny , and if you laugh at them , we recommend that you see a doctor as quickly as possible since your humour gland has obviously gone mental . |
23 | Then she said , ‘ You 've been on nights too long . ’ |
24 | ‘ To begin with , I 've been on my own a long time , and the longer one is alone the more used to it and the more choosy one becomes . |
25 | ‘ I look as though I 've been on the wrong end of a Gestapo interrogation . |
26 | Admit that I 've been on ‘ Top Ten ’ ; 5 . |
27 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
28 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
29 | " I 've been on some of their demos . " |
30 | I 've been on the Moor all night , you see . |